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Coffee is an important export commodity for Indonesia. Coffee drying is post-harvest processing that greatly determines the coffee quality and microbiological safety. Conventional/sun drying is time-consuming, depending on the weather, and can potentially contaminate coffee beans by dust and moisture...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a reference for various companies in United Nations (UN) member states to contribute to reducing social inequality and environmental maintenance in achieving sustainable development. Companies that contribute positively to environmental protection or maintenance...

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of mint leaf extract nanoemulsion (Mentha piperita L) on serum urea levels and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in alloxan-induced hyperglycemic Wistar rats. The active substance content in mint leaf extract (Mentha piperita L) through Gc Ms Analysis, namely...

Binawan University, located in a densely trafficked area, is at risk of experiencing decreased Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) due to exposure to pollutants from vehicle emissions and other sources of contamination. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Sansevieria sp. in improving IAQ at Binawan...

In the reform and opening up, Guangdong Province has gradually achieved vigorous economic development, with its total economic output ranking first in the country for 34 consecutive years, and its economic strength has greatly improved. However, the phenomenon of economic polarization still exists in...

The aim is to find out the habits of career women who have a high BMI. The method used is a survey with IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis) analysis. The IPA analysis itself is used to conduct an in-depth examination of the direct experience experienced by a person. The essence of IPA itself...

Stunting is defined as chronic malnutrition or failure that occurs during the growth period and can be used as an indicator for nutritional fulfilment in children. Children who have insufficient or poor nutritional intake and have a short body size or very short growth status can put their intelligence...

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, especially after ischemic heart disease. Physical activity, especially structured exercises such as Interval Walking Training (IWT), has shown potential in reducing the risk of stroke by improving cardiovascular health, muscle strength, and overall...

Residual schizophrenia is a type of schizophrenia with a record of at least one psychotic episode, followed by symptoms that are more prominently negative. Antipsychotic use is the primary therapy, but long-term antipsychotic use affects problems such as Adverse Drug Reactions, resulting in reduced adherence,...

This study aims to analyze the influence of perceived organizational support and work facilities on employee performance with motivation as an intervening variable at BAPPEDALITBANG Karo Regency. Organizational support perceived by employees and adequate work facilities are believed to increase work...

The advent of technology has sparked a revolution in many sectors, including education. The emergence of new teaching strategies and approaches, such as E-learning, has led to a rapid evolution of educational practices. In the same context, artificial intelligence opens up new possibilities by adapting...

As environmental sustainability and digitalization revolutionize the consumer expectations worldwide, businesses are being pushed harder than ever to integrate marketing strategies with sustainable and technology-driven approaches. In this study, the impact of advanced Sustainable Digital Marketing (SDM)...

Village-owned enterprises (BUMDes) are village commercial institutions that utilize the potential of local village resources to make a profit. BUMDes also provides social services that are in favor of the welfare of village communities. Responsibility for maintaining surrounding conditions such as the...

The current study contributes to xetermine the impact of Capital Structure and Profitability on enterprise value moderated by Dividend Policy among Sharia-compliant Companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Purposive sampling was applied as a method to determine the study samples, namely 40 Islamic...

Kebumen is one of the districts located on the southern coast of Indonesia. The area has the potential for natural disasters, including earthquakes and tsunamis. Students are one of the elements vulnerable to disaster risk, so student preparedness needs improvement. This study aims to determine the effectiveness...

Self-management is behavior change that is managed by the individual himself to change behavior with self-awareness. The application of self-management techniques through group counseling activities proves the effectiveness of reducing student aggressiveness. Before doing the treatment, the researcher...

Background: Abdominal obesity is a clinical setting recognized as a difficult situation to assess transcutaneous pulse wave velocity (PWV). PWV measurement between carotid and femoral sites is considered as the gold standard measurement of aortic stiffness. Arterial stiffness is an important parameter...

Objectives: Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is usually estimated by sequential (ECG referenced) carotid-femoral tonometry using the SphygmoCor system (Atcor, Australia). This can be technically challenging and operator dependant. Here we evaluate a simple, operator independent method of estimating central...

Objectives. The BPGUIDE study was a prospective, blinded-endpoint study in 286 hypertensive patients randomised to treatment decisions guided by best-practice usual care (n = 142) or in addition by central BP measurement (n = 144; using SphygmoCor) over twelve months. This study aimed to undertake a...

Mean ambulatory pulse pressure (PP) is a potent predictor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Objectives. Investigating prognostic significance of elastic and non-elastic PP components Methods. Using a generalized nonlinear pressure–volume relationship in arteries (Fig. 1), PP can be split into...

Atherosclerosis is a pathological process affecting arterial elasticity. The rabbit is one of the most widely used animal models for atherosclerosis research. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a method for the automatic assessment of local vascular stiffness in rabbits. An off-line...

Objective. We have shown that regression of brachial stiffness is inversely related to aortic stiffness in dialysis patients. In this study, we sequentially examine the impact of aortic stiffness, brachial stiffness and aortic-brachial stiffness mismatch on mortality in dialysis patients. Design and...

This study aims to explore the current situation of using Listening Comprehension Strategies (LCS) in IELTS, compare the difference in using LCS between the efficient listeners and less efficient listeners, find out efficient learners' specific methods of applying LCS, and provide some feasible suggestions...

In 1920, Sichuan authorities reorganized Industrial Exposition in Qingyang Temple, which was the first time to hold this Industrial Exposition since the Revolution of 1911 nearly a decade of stagnation. The reasons included mainly: authorities had changed attitude toward the temple and advocated to develop...

Chou En-lai explored the Chinese democracy construction, asserting that democracy was the essence of socialism. He summarized principles and approaches of expanding democracy and advocated consultative democracy and democracy within the Party, setting a base stone for people's democracy and guiding the...

In order to realize digital image sequence processing for multi-channel vision in real-time simultaneously, a hardware system with FPGA&DSP is designed. In the system, two ZBT SRAM chips are used as the input and output cache for high data transferring. A FPGA chip is responsible for the core logic controlling...

The shock tower, serving as a critical component of the front car body, plays an important role in the stability and ride comfort of the vehicle. In this study, a lightweight optimal design was obtained based on the original steel structure. Stiffness requirements for optimization process were extracted...

Asymmetry in the parties of the transaction leads to uncertainty in the transaction. Trust problem has been one of the bottlenecks restricting the development of e-commerce. For e-commerce product review issues, comment trust recommendation model was proposed based on comment credibility degree and user...

It was the base of the model which accurately determined the relationship of each part of the armament system combat capability simulation model. In this paper, structural equation modeling method (SEM) was used to determine relationships between the various components of the armament combat capability...

Under the background that the speed of railway is greatly improved and railway transport lines become increasingly busy, students from our university have encountered numerous difficulties in field practice and the quality of practice teaching is restrained by objective conditions. In order to solve...

This paper considers the major factors influencing cement flowability and its conservation in humid environment with the presence of processing additives during grinding. It describes cement flowability quantitative measurement methods developed and introduced by the authors and implemented on the basis...

Sleep is one of stimulation for brain growth. Approximately 75% of growth hormone is removed when the baby is asleep. High levels of the growth hormone. This god has the task of stimulating bone and tissue growth, and regulates the body's metabolism, including the baby's brain. Sleep has a role in increasing...

Elderly with frailty need help to do they daily activities. Training for health volunteers and primary caregiver was expected to increase their ability in providing care to the elderly with frailty. So the elderly's quality of life can be maintained, or even improved. The training was conducted at health...

This study was aimed to reveal the achievement level of (1) the teacher performance of vocational school students, (2) the productive competencies of vocational school, and (3) the effect of teacher performance on productive competencies of West Sumatra vocational schools students. The study used is...

Resonantly enhanced transmission through subwavelength periodic structure in metallic film has received much attention since the phenomenon of extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) was discovered by Ebbesen in 1998. A variety of novel phenomena caused by the interaction of light with metallic film,...

On the basis of the dynamic equations of rotor system with pedestal looseness, rub impact and crack, the random response method of rotor system with pedestal looseness is researched. The method is based on stochastic perturbation theory and the Kronecker algebra, matrix calculus and random perturbation...

The existing time could be years or even decades for goafs formed in mining. The rheological property of pillars may cause tensile failure in roof, and finally induce goaf catastrophic accidents which put serious threats to people underground and buildings on ground. Previous studies on goaf safety involving...

This descriptive qualitative research was conducted to find out the types of translation shift based on Catford’s theory. The data was taken from bilingual children book entitled Kumpulan Dongeng Motivasi. In this case, Bahasa Indonesia as source language (SL) and English as target language (TL). Documentation...

Rural power grid is an important part of the power grid as it providing basic public services essential to people's livelihood. Construction of the rural power gird upgrades is benefit for the local economy. In this paper, a model for the rural power grid construction evaluation has been established...

Ebola viruses (family: Filoviridae) are the cause of Ebola virus disease (EVD), a highly fatal illness characterised by haemorrhagic fever syndrome in both humans and non-human primates (NHPs). West Africa was the epicentre of the 2013–2015 EVD epidemic which caused the death of over 11,000 people, including...

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Curriculum 2013 implementation by Economics Teachers in the Greater Bandung, and know the influence of teachers’ competencies on the effectiveness of Curriculum 2013 Implementation. The study used survey method by questionnaire. The results showed that...

The tanning industry produced a large amount of tannery wastewater and solid waste, resulting in environmental pollution and waste of resources, which has become an urgent need to be solved. In this study, a gelatin-based graphene oxide composite adsorption membrane was prepared and treated with low...

Tourism industry depends on the information. The industry also has a high product complexity, demand uncertainty, and very dynamic. This research aims to analyze the complexity and dynamics of tourism supply chain management (TSCM) after natural disaster crisis in a tourism destination. The study was...

Stress factors are increasing in the modern world and the scientific community has to search for resources to ensure the effective functioning of the individual in all conditions. Numerous studies have shown that turning a traumatic situation into something positive improves physical health and well-being...

This research was aimed at finding out elementary school students’ social skill mastery and analyzing the needs of a sociocultural-based reflective picture storybook for the students’ social skill development. This research used the survey method. The research participants were grade IV elementary school...

This research was initiated from the problem of inconsistent achievement of athlete, accordingly the purpose of this research is to study the implementation of management and technology of SSTC Pencak Silat Riau. This research uses qualitative descriptive method to describe implementation management...

For the past three years, since President Jokowi took up the office, Indonesia has been emphasizing its ambitious goal to transform the nation into a global maritime fulcrum and have been developing some projects and initiatives to achieve it. To transform Indonesia into the world maritime fulcrum was...

This study was aimed to determine the effect of aqua jogging on the hematology in obese women. Experimental Randomized pre-test post-test control group design, 36 obese women, age 45-50 years, divided into 3 groups, aqua jogging, resistance training and control (n = 12). Body Mass Index (BMI) hematological...

Hypertension is a major health problem. High prevalence of hypertension contributes to an increase risk of cardiovascular disease which is the first cause of death in the world. In relation to students, they also have risk, such as smoking, consuming alcohol, consuming coffee, stress, consuming high-salt...

Sustainable tourism has always been a reference in the development of tourism all around the world, awareness of tourism industry players, local community and tourists, in supporting tourism development more aggressively heard as a discourse to improve community welfare. This study used cultural studies...